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Unbelievable: Busia Residents In Shock Over Cow That Visits Toilet

By Our Reporter Residents of Nanjekho village in Busia county are living in fear and bewilderment after being visited by a strange...

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African Aviation Week Of Mixed Emotions; Sadness & Happiness

By Our Reporter African Aviation industry has faced a week of mixed emotions, filled with happiness and sadness. Uganda Airlines receives second...

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More Ugandan Women Arrested For Drug Trafficking In India

By Our Reporter A Nigerian man, identified as Kingsley, and two women from Uganda have been arrested with nine kilograms of narcotics...

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MTN Jumps As Earnings Rise On Sale Of Some Tower Assets

By Our Reporter MTN Group Ltd. said profit may have almost doubled last year after the sale of stakes in telecom-tower joint...

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Tensions Rise Over Escalating Abductions

By Our Reporter KAMPALA, Uganda – Ugandan authorities face pressure to find more than two dozen people allegedly abducted by security forces...

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COVID-19, Regional Conflicts Engulf African Union Summit

By Our Reporter ADDIS ABABA – African leaders are expected to focus on the continent’s COVID-19 response at a virtual summit this...

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50 Years On From Idi Amin – The Indian Diaspora Still Remembers Him

This February marks 50 years since a malevolent and ruthless Ugandan army officer staged a political coup in East Africa and pronounced...

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Opinion: From Internet Shutdown to VPN Showdown, Govt Is on a Warpath

By Charles Onyango-Obbo Ahead of the January 14 election, Uganda shuttered the Internet, lifting them after almost five days. An earlier blockage...

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GGGI Signs MOU With Green Building Council Uganda To Boost Four Secondary Cities’ Dev’t

GGGI Uganda and the Green Building Council (GBC) signed an MOU on Cooperation for Green City Development under a project intended to...

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Ugandan Match-Fixing Suspect Released As Complainant Drops Case

By Our Reporter Nairobi — Ugandan Niwagira Ronald Mwine Fred arrested one week ago for allegedly trying to fix a Kenyan Premier...

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DR Congo PM Sylvestre Ilunga resigns a day after Impeachment

KINSHASHA, DRC: DR Congo’s Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba resigned on Friday, a day after the National Assembly censured him for incompetence....

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South Sudan switches to new Time Zone

SOUTH SUDAN, AFRICA NEWS: The government of South Sudan Republic has announced it will switch to a new time zone by February...

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Uganda’s Mbabazi eyes top AU job

AGENCIES: Uganda’s Prof. Pamela Kasabiiti Mbabazi is one of eight who have been nominated to contest as Vice Chairperson in next week’s African...

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Court to rule today on recounting in Kampala Central MP polls

MENGO, KAMPALA: The Chief Magistrates court in Mengo will today (Thursday) rule on an application filed Fred Nyanzi seeking for a vote...

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Construction Of Uganda-Tanzania Roads ‘To Start Soon’

By Our Reporter Kampala: Construction of two key roads linking Tanzania and Uganda is finally set for a takeoff. The multi-million dollar...

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Nine Dead In Clashes On Somalia, Kenya Border

By Our Reporter Fighting broke out early Monday along Somalia’s border with Kenya, leaving at least nine dead and several injured on...

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Police Still In My Compound Despite Court Order-Frustrated Bobi Wine

By Our Reporter The Ugandan High Court issued an order on Monday barring the military from surrounding the home of the main...

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Ugandan Jews Not Eligible to Immigrate to Israel, State Informs High Court

By Our Reporter After years of deliberation, Israel’s Interior Ministry has determined that members of the Jewish community of Uganda are not...

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Play Your Smelly Games Knowing We Are Watching You! Owners Of Sold Banks By BoU Mafias Warn DPP As She Prolongs Investigations

By Our Reporter The owners of seven sold banks by unruly Bank of Uganda mafias have shown their dissatisfaction over DPP after...

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Bobi Wine’s NUP Party Scoops 41 Out Of 44 Council Seats In Kampala

By Our Reporter Kampala: The National Unity Platform (NUP) led by Robert Kyagulanyi popularly referred to as Bobi Wine, has whitewashed President...

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Ever Since I Started Leading Ugandans, 2021 Polls Were Most Free, Fair & Peaceful: Museveni Tells Diplomats

By Our Reporter President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni through his foreign Minister Sam Kahamba Kutesa on Wednesday briefed foreign diplomats on the just-concluded...

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Uganda Accuses U.S. Of Meddling In Presidential Election

By Our Reporter Uganda on Tuesday accused the US of meddling in the country’s internal affairs, particularly election results, days after incumbent...

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My Wife & I Have Been Under House Arrest With 18-Month-Old-Baby Without Food: Hungry Bobi Wine Weeps Crocodile Tears

By Our Reporter The leader of Uganda’s main opposition party, Bobi Wine, has disclosed that he and his wife are stuck with...